Expectations

Matt poked Jamie with a stick to make sure she wasn’t dead.

“Hey!”

“You’ve been staring at that page for an hour.”

“I was just…” she sighed. “It’s that point where everything seems hopeless, like the hero can’t possibly win.”

“They’ll come up with something.”

“Yeah, that’s the problem.” She put the book down. “Things like this make us believe the cavalry always turns up just in time. But in real life, the bad guys have the money and the power and there isn’t any cavalry so they just beat you. How can we fight that?”

Matt shrugged. “Try harder.”